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2022-01-31 20:39:55
Anglais - Pikovaya Dama at the Liceu: The Return of a Historic Production
[…] madness’ required by the character. Lisa, dramatically a very passive character that serves essentially to explain the path towards Hermann’s madness, is also musically very demanding. It was interpreted by Lianna Haroutounian, replacing Sondra Radvanovski, who cancelled the performance due to a family bereavement. With a powerful and very well projected voice, Haroutounian delivered a good style Lisa that worked better in the important solo interventions than in the duets with Eyvazov. Lena Belkina performed with a very good and melodious voice and with great legato lines the two characters of Polina and Milvozor. The Countess, a very important character dramatically speaking as she concentrates all the sinister and dark aspects of the piece, was performed with great musical and dramatic results by Elena Zaremba, the same mezzosoprano who interpreted Polina in the 2010 performances. Rodion Pogossov did a generally good Prince Yeletsky. His role though contains […]
2019-05-31 06:27:14
Musical delights: Gluck's Bauci e Filemone and Orfeo
Gluck: Orfeo - Kiandra Howarth, Lena Belkina - The Mozartists (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) Gluck Bauci e Filemone, Orfeo; Lena Belkina, Rebecca Bottone, Kiandra Howarth, Gwilym Bowen, Ian Page, The Mozartists, dir: John Wilkie; Queen Elizabeth Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 29 May 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A rare version of Gluck's Orfeo revived in this double bill from Classical Opera Gluck: Orfeo - Gwilym Bowen - The Mozartists (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Eurydice is such a well-known and iconic work that it comes as something of a surprise that Ian Page and Classical Opera gave the UK premiere of a significant new version of the opera, one created by Gluck himself. Yet Gluck's 1769 revision of the work has been strangely neglected. It was created as part of a triple bill of one-act operas, Le feste d'Apollo, and as part […]
2019-03-04 14:12:37
[…] broadcast on BBC TV and radio. List of singers: Guadalupe Barrientos (mezzo-soprano), Argentina Lauren Fagan (soprano), Australia Camila Titinger (soprano), Brazil Mingjie Lei (tenor), China Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), England Adriana Gonzalez (soprano), Guatemala Jorge Espino (baritone), Mexico Badral Chuluunbaatar (baritone), Mongolia Luis Gomes (tenor), Portugal Roman Arndt (tenor), Russia Karina Kherunts (mezzo-soprano), Russia Yulia Mennibaeva (mezzo-soprano), Russia Owen Metsileng (tenor), South Africa Leonardo Lee (baritone), South Korea Sooyeon Lee (soprano), South Korea Lena Belkina (mezzo-soprano), Ukraine Andrei Kymach (baritone), Ukraine Patrick Guetti (bass), US Richard Ollarsaba (bass-baritone), US Angharad Lyddon (mezzo-soprano), Wales
2014-03-17 13:00:02
Fishing expedition
Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin mixes it up a bit this week, presenting a score that should be familiar by now, though this time with a novel cast. It’s Dvorák’s Rusalka from the Vienna State Opera with Krassimira Stoyanova in the title role. Antonín Dvorák: Rusalka Wiener Staatsoper Jirí Belohlávek, conductor 01 February 2014 Rusalka – Krassimira Stoyanova Prince – Michael Schade Foreign Princess – Monika Bohinec Jezibaba – Janina Baechle Gnome – Günther Groissböck Kitchen Boy – Stephanie Houtzeel Gamekeeper – Gabriel Bermúdez First Sprite – Valentina Nafornita Second Sprite – Lena Belkina Third Sprite – Ilseyar Khayrullova Hunter – Mihail Dogotari
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